Vocalist Gabrielle Stravelli regularly leads her quartet in performances at the country’s finest jazz clubs and performing arts centers and she has headlined domestic and international jazz festivals including the 2023 Delaware Water Gap COTA Jazz Festival, 2023 Cayman Arts Festival on Grand Cayman Island, the 2021 & 2018 WBGO Jazz on the Mountain Festival in New Paltz, NY, the 2019 Providencia Jazz Festival in Santiago, Chile, the 2016 All That Jazz Festival in Eleuthera, Bahamas and the 2014 Maree Sonore Festival in Venice, Italy. She premiered pianist Fred Hersch’s song cycle “Rooms of Light” and toured the U.S. premiering Wynton Marsalis’s “Abyssinian Mass.”
As a US State Department “Jazz Ambassador” she has performed and taught throughout Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America. “Dream Ago,” her 2017 release which consists primarily of original material, received a rare 5- star review from Downbeat Magazine and her 2019 release “Pick Up My Pieces: Gabrielle Stravelli Sings Willie Nelson” was featured by noted music critic Will Friedwald in the WSJ and awarded the 2020 Bistro Award for Outstanding Recording. IG: @gabriellestravelli
Bassist Patrick O’Leary has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, and Japan with a veritable who’s who of jazz greats including Lionel Hampton, Illinois Jacquet, Diana Krall, Hal Galper, Bob Dorough and Teri Thornton. Born in Buffalo, O’Leary studied piano and bass at Potsdam State University’s Crane School of Music earning a BS in Music.
During his tenure as the bassist for the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Pat recorded the Grammy-nominated CD “Sentimental Journey” for Atlantic Records. Pat performed with legendary jazz pianist and vocalist Bob Dorough for 20 years. Other leading artists with whom O’Leary has played include Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt, saxophonists James Moody, Junior Cook, Lee Konitz and Joe Lovano, pianists Barry Harris and Junior Mance, and vocalists Joe Williams and Marlena Shaw.
As a US Department of State Jazz Ambassador, O’Leary has toured 11 west African countries, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and South America performing concerts and teaching masterclasses. In recent years Pat has taken a special interest in fusing jazz, classical and ethnic folk music culminating in the “Montenegro Jazz Suite” and his “Serbian Jazz Suite” which featured The Belgrade Radio and Television Orchestra,a 100-member choir and jazz quartet.
